• DAIS Mobile App Competition (Winner), IISE (2023)
• Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd Place), IISE (2023)
• IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Data Science, Quality and Reliability), IISE (2023)
• IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing), IISE (2023)
• Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2022)
• Panel Fellow, NSF CMMI Game Changer Academy (2022-2023)
• FTC Early Career Grant, ASQ (2022)
• Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, CIE Division, ASME (2022)
• Best Track Paper Award, DAIS Division, IISE (2022)
• Best Theoretical Paper Award, INFORMS 2021 Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop, Winner (2021)

• Aug. 2026: Welcome Alexander Sapronov, who joins our group as a new Ph.D. student!
• July 2026: Our group received an NSF CSSI (Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation) Elements award for the collaborative project Data-Agent: Agentic AI for Autonomous Data Quality Evaluation, Curation, and Task-Aware Dataset Design for Vision-Based Industrial Inspection, in collaboration with Dr. Shancong Mou and Dr. Zirui Liu at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wang serves as the RPI PI. We appreciate the support from NSF!
• July 2026: Our group received a grant from the RPI Teaching and Learning Collaboratory for the project AI-Driven Scenario-Based Simulation for Communication Skills Training in Semiconductor Manufacturing, with Dr. Wang as PI and Dr. Helen Zhou and Dr. Muhsin Celik as Co-PIs.
• June 2026: Dr. Wang started to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Quality & Reliability Technical Committee (TC) of the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED).
• June 2026: Ph.D. student Jiayu Liu presented our work Quantum Bayesian Optimization for Quality Improvement in Fuselage Assembly at ASME MSEC 2026 at Penn State University!
• May 2026: Dr. Wang will serve as a Board Director of the IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division (2026–2028).
• May 2026: Ph.D. students Jiayu Liu and Junfeng Wu presented their research works at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2026 in Arlington, VA!
• May 2026: Ph.D. student Junfeng Wu gave a talk on Hardware-aware Finetuning for Efficient Deployment of LLM on Heterogeneous Computing Hardware at the IBM-RPI FCRC Seminar Series.
• March 2026: Dr. Wang gave an invited talk, Data-centric Modeling and Optimization for Complex Physical Systems, at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University.
• Jan. 2026: Welcome Miaomiao Feng, who joins our group as a new Ph.D. student!
• Jan. 2026: Dr. Wang was selected as an RPI-BNL Visiting Faculty Fellow for 2026.
• Nov. 2025: Our group received the IBM-RPI Future of Computing Research Collaboration (FCRC) Grant. Congratulations!
• Oct. 2025: Ph.D. students Jiayu Liu, Junfeng Wu, and Yue Zhao presented their research works at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025 in Atlanta!
• Sep. 2025: Our group is part of the DOE project Toward Higher Brightness and Polarization of Hadron Beams: Digital-Twin-based Control of BNL’s Hadron Accelerator Chain, led by Dr. Georg Hoffstaetter (PI), with Dr. Wang serving as Co-PI. We appreciate the support from DOE!

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• Zhao, Y., Li, Y., Liu, C., Wang, Y., (2025), ADs: Active Data-sharing for Data Quality Assurance in Advanced Manufacturing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
• Liu, J., Mou, S., Gaw, N., Wang, Y., (2025), GAN-inversion for Unsupervised Industrial 3D Point Cloud Anomaly Detection, Expert System with Applications.
• Lutz, T., Wang, Y., Yue, X., Camelio, J., (2024), Reinforcement Learning for Fuselage Actuator Placement and Forces, IISE Transactions.
• Wang, Y., Lutz, T., Yue, X., (2024), SmartFixture: A Physics-guided Reinforcement Learning Framework for Automatic Fixture Design in Manufacturing Process, IISE Transactions.
• Wang, Y., Sun, W., Jin, J., Kong, Z., Yue, X. (2024). WOOD: Wasserstein-based out-of-distribution detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.